72 LAWS AGAINST INJUEIOTJS INSECTS. 



filing a certificate of inspection from a State or Government officer, or some per- 

 son designated by the Michigan State board of agriculture. 



Sec. 5. The State board of agriculture shall, upon the receipt of the required 

 fee and a satisfactory bond and certificate of inspection, issue a license to each 

 applicant, whether a resident of this State or of another State, province, or 

 country, permitting the sale of nursery stock by the holder, or by his accredited 

 agents, for the period ending the thirty-first of July following the date upon 

 which said license goes into effect. 



Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the State inspector of orchards and nurseries 

 to examine all nurseries in the State, at least once each year, for the presence 

 of San Jose scale and other dangerously injurious insects and diseases. If 

 found to be apparently free from such dangerous insects and diseases, a certi- 

 ficate to that effect shall be given the owner, upon the payment of an inspection 

 fee sufficient to defray the per diem of the inspector. Said certificate shall be 

 void on the thirty-first day of July following. In case any dangerous insect or 

 infectious disease is found upon any nursery stock the inspector shall order 

 and enforce such treatment as may be deemed sufficient to exterminate "such 

 insects or diseases before granting a certificate. If a subsequent examination 

 shall show the stock to be infected, or infested, the certificate may be revoked. 



Sec. 7. Whenever a nurseryman or other i)erson shall ship or deliver within 

 this State, except for scientific purposes, any trees, shrubs, plants, or vines, com- 

 monly known as nursery stock, he shall place upon each car, box, bale, or other 

 package a copy of a certificate of inspection, the original of which is signed by 

 said inspector. Failure to do this, or the illegal use of said certificate by chang- 

 ing, defacing, or placing it upon uninspected stock, or using the same after it 

 has expired or been revoked, shall render the shipper or owner liable to the pen- 

 alties prescribed for a violation of this act. Dealers in nursery stock purchased 

 from other firms may, upon filing with the State inspector of orchards and 

 nurseries duplicate copies of the certificates of inspection issued upon the stock 

 grown by said firms, and on the payment of a fee of one dollar, receive a certifi- 

 cate showing that the stock has been inspected. Said certificate may be used 

 for the shipment of nursery stock that has come to them accompanied by a 

 certificate of inspection, but for no other. Nurserymen may ship under their 

 own certificate of inspection any stock that has come to them later than the first 

 day of the previous August accompanied by a certificate of inspection, and, if 

 from another State, Territory, province, or countj', by a certificate of fumiga- 

 tion as required by this act. 



Sec. 8. If any nursery stock of species subject to the attack of the San Jose 

 scale has been grown within one-half mile of where the San Jose scale exists, 

 or has been known to exist within two years, it shall, before it is shipped or 

 delivered, be fumigated with hydrocyanic-acid gas of the strength commonly 

 used for such purpose for not less than tliirtj^ minutes. All trees, plants, 

 shrubs, and vines of species subject to the attack of the San Jose scale shipped 

 into this State from another State, Territory, province, or country, must be 

 fumigated with hydrocyanic-acid gas in the usual manner, and each car, box, or 

 bale in which said nursery stock is shipped shall have upon it a certificate 

 signed by the shipper stating that such fumigation has been given in addition 

 to the usual certificate of inspection. 



Sec. 9. The owner of any nursery trees, vines, shrubs, or plants, upon receiv- 

 ing notice from the State inspector of orchards and nurseries that any or all of 

 them are infected or infested with dangerous insects or diseases, shall, within 

 the time specified in such notice, take such steps as will fully comply with the 

 orders of the State inspector of orchards and nurseries, and he shall not ship or 



